We’ve lost another American legend… Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham, who piloted the lunar module on that mission when he flew into space back in 1968 on what was the first flight with a crew aboard in NASA’s Apollo program, has died. He was 90 years old. Cunningham was a fighter pilot, a physicist, and an entrepreneur… but above it all, he was an explorer. He was selected as an astronaut in 1963 as part of NASA’s third astronaut class. Apollo 7 launched on October 11, 1968. 263 hours and 4.5-million-miles later, it splashed down October 22, 1968, in the Atlantic Ocean. Cunningham retired from NASA in 1971.